SEVERAL of Southport’s top law firms were welcomed into the North West Solicitors’ Association (NWSA) during a meeting at Formby Gild Hall.

SEVERAL of Southport’s top law firms were welcomed into the North West Solicitors’ Association (NWSA) during a meeting at Formby Gild Hall.

Local law firms including Hodge Halsall, Fletchers, Brighouses, Mawdsleys, Cook & Talbot, Whitfields, Cockshott Peck & Lewis and Brown Turner were among the new members of the association. The NWSA, now a unique collaboration of 19 legal firms, was set up to tackle the issues associated with moving home, and to reduce conveyancing transaction times.

Tracy Thompson, licensed conveyancer at Morecrofts solicitors, and a member of the management committee of the NWSA, said: “We have now firmly established the NWSA in Sefton as an exclusive association of solicitors who will work together to standardise services and procedures. This will benefit everyone involved in the property world from estate agents to solicitors and the public.

“With cooperation between solicitors we can offer a superior service and dramatically cut conveyancing times.”

Steve Battarbee, chairman of the NWSA, added: “Following the success of the NWSA in Sefton we intend to expand the association to include members from Liverpool city centre and Ormskirk.”